environmentalism

Question 1

what does environmentalism cover?

Answer 1

industrial pollution, protection of wildlife, organic farming, and the dangers from radiation and nuclear waste

Question 2

what had a big impact on people’s views of the planet?

Answer 2

pictures taken of the earth from space- highlighted earth’s fragility

Question 3

new word ‘ecology’ entered the vocabulary defining

Answer 3

the health of the natural environemnt

Question 4

what book in 1962 had an enormous international impact?

Answer 4

Silent Spring (by the American biologist Rache Carson)l

Question 5

in 1968 a campaigning book the poupulation bomb’ by Paul Ehlrich dramatised?

Answer 5

the threat to the environment from overpopulation

Question 6

1970 announced to be ?

Answer 6

the year of European conseravtion

Question 7

environmental pressure groups Friends of the Earth formed in us 1969, and expanded to include Britian, France and Sweden in?

Answer 7

1971

Question 8

original drive behind CND= to protets against atomic weapons, a new form of anti-nuclear protest campaigned against use of nuclear power to ?

Answer 8

generate electricity because of the long term dangers in dealing with radioactive nuclear waste + potential for accidents

Question 9

between 1957-1979 there had been how many incidents at the nuclear power station Sellafield (which was on the cumbrian coast)?

Answer 9

5 incidents

Question 10

Greenspace UK was formed in?

Answer 10

1977

Question 11

outrage in 1975 why?

Answer 11

discovered that beagles in labs being forced to smoke 30 cigs a day to study the effects

Question 12

animal righ protesters carried out violent attacks on pharmaceutical laboratories from?

Answer 12

1973

Question 13

the animal liberation front was formed in? what did they adopt?

Answer 13

formed in 1976
adopted extreme violence: letter bombs sent to politicians, including Thatcher in 1984

Question 14

alongside environmental pressure groups, there was general increase in?

Answer 14

interest in the natural environemnt

Question 15

in 1979, what series of David Attenborough used new techniques of colour photography and gained massive television audiences worldwide?

Answer 15

Life on Earth series

Question 16

Teddy Goldmsith publish ‘ A blueprint for Survival’ in 1972 which advocated a?what did this form?

Answer 16

return to self-sufficiency and de-inustrialised society
- This formed the political platform of the people’s party which was set up in 1973

Question 17

The people’s party put up how many candidates in February 1974?

Answer 17

5 candidates
-changed name to the Ecology party in 1975

Question 18

ecology party put how many candidates in the 1979 general election?

Answer 18

53
By the end of 1970s, environmentalism had carved a permanent place on political scene